Vulnerability · Published Aug 10, 2020 · Assigned by mozilla
CVE-2020-15650
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Firefox ESR from Mozilla. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Given an installed malicious file picker application, an attacker was able to overwrite local files and thus overwrite Firefox settings (but not access the previous profile). *Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.11.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox ESR | unspecified – before 68.11 |
References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-31/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652360 x_refsource_MISC